If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him. ~ Wil Wheaton

Everybody in America is angry about something. ~ Anthony Braxton

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ~ George Eliot

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. ~ Sigmund Freud

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ~ Benjamin Spock

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ~ Christopher Morley

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love. ~ Publilius Syrus

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ~ Frank Moore Colby

I was so angry to realize I’m a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup. ~ Jean Claude Lauzon

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~ Malachy McCourt

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back – in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. ~ Frederick Buechner

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~ William H. Walton

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ William Saroyan

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